Word: perestroika
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...Bush had to choose between the success of Gorbachev's program to reform the Soviet Union and the fulfillment of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's plan to create a German "federation," the President would almost certainly pick perestroika, since that is what is driving the new Soviet foreign policy. On this issue, Malta was an exercise in private commiseration and public obfuscation. With Bush at his side at their joint press conference, Gorbachev said that "history" should be allowed to determine the status of the two Germanys, and he warned against any "artificial acceleration" of the "process of change...
...Gorbachev in Malta restored momentum to U.S.-Soviet relations and gave a boost to what Bush called his "new thinking" about the changes in the Communist world. Yet the President had barely left his joint press conference with Gorbachev when he encountered serious questions about his plans to encourage perestroika and to deliver on his promises in time...
...recalled in 1986 by Gorbachev, and swiftly took a leading role in urging the Soviet leader to follow through on Gorbachev's twin policies of perestroika, or restructuring, and glasnost, or openness...
Bush's earnest presentation of his overall proposals had a weight to it that the Soviets acknowledged. Said an American aide who was at the table: "The President wanted to get the message across that he didn't just support perestroika; he wanted to back up his support." Gorbachev listened closely, nodding vigorously at times. His reply to the President's offers was warm, though mostly general. "Gorbachev completely caught the spirit," said a U.S. official. "There was nothing from which he dissented...
WARREN ZEVON: TRANSVERSE CITY (Virgin). The nastiest and least predictable of the California singer-songwriters opens hard with a dour, futuristic suite of three tunes inspired by cyberpunk sci-fi, then draws his usual fine satiric bead on a range of subjects from perestroika to malling...